Best and Better Ways

Photo by Ahmed akacha from Pexels The Better Way             – Jerold London, October 2024 Even if evil, in fact,Affects the earthAs powerfully as good,In all its evil ways,The better wayIs to know and remember others kindly,Pass on what you know,And remember. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service […]

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Phoebus Moon

Photo by Mo Eid from Pexels O Phoebus Moon, you fill our soulful nightsWith murmurs of the years remembered by.The glowing, growing circles tearful ofThe smiles and joys and touch caressed, beloved. No greater truth than time transfixes life.Persists beyond resistance of good bye.Resistance of the longings of the heart.Beyond the wish upon the farthest

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Make America Bonnie Again

Photo by Pixabay from Pexels The wedding partyJoy aboundingBright and perfect autumn dayPicture-taking in the parkWhen late the bridegroom chanced to seeAn old manSittingOn a benchWooden and aloneAnd went to himTo ask of himFor some bonnie news.But he just smiled and turned his headAnd this is what the grey beard said:“Ugly,” Americans once were calledMake

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Ophelia

Image from Wikimedia I was killed by ten capricious water spritesIs what they say. Or one malicious prince gone mad.And died a second death when born in Shakespeare’s mindWho clipped my wings lest I should fly away. But truth be told, four hundred rotten years gone byWith breath as bold as death and sour as

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A Red Train

Photo by Reha Paşa from Pexels A Red Train speeds down rails of memoryFrom Western Ridge, as far as mind can see.I’m yours, I was, I breathed a hundred timesAs bodies touched and sand became the floor. We’ll never part, and now the time is nighOur measured lives against the way we made.Could we have

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